Re: Walker performance vs. Washington

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

When you can't even break 40 wins you basically suck. Walker is a tweaner
plain and simple who takes 25 shots a game and is lucky to go to the foul
line 5 times. You won't win this way. His BYC is up , time to move him for a
real 1, 3, or physical 4.
I would not call having Kenny and Battie back as being pluses. They have
both been major disappointments. In one breath you call Anderson a plus,
another we need to upgrade the 1 spot ?  Which is it ?  I'm tired of the
lack of playoff appearances.







----- Original Message -----
From: "I am. . . Anonymous" <ktoreed@yahoo.com>
To: "John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>; <r-ramani@usa.net>;
<celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Walker performance vs. Washington


> >>This team will never progress with Antoine Walker
> wanting the touches he wants and jacking 10 3's
> a game. >>
>
> The team progressed fine when Spintino finally left.
> As much as y'all like to diss on our best player,
> Antoine Walker, if not for him then now we would never
> even be close to the playoffs.  I believe Alex has on
> more than one occassion effectively shot down the
> "Toine takes too many 3's" argument", to which none of
> you could counter but rather simply chose to ignore.
>
> Trading Toine now would be STUPID.  We need to upgrade
> our weaknesses (upgrade the 1 and 5 positions) rather
> than trade our strengths and put Walker, Pierce, and
> O'Brien in a better situation to win.  There is no
> doubt in my mind that after Walker and Pierce, our
> 3-12 players are amongst the worst in the league.  I
> don't care what Pitino did in college but as the
> Celtics coach he was horrible.  If not for him, we
> make the playoffs this year.  O'Brien did a far
> superior job with the team and with a far tougher
> schedule and an injured Tony Battie.
>
> We will have 3 draft picks to use as capital for next
> year.  And a far superior coach.  And we will have
> Battie and Kenny back.  On paper, at least, the C's
> are a playoff team for next year and the analysts will
> predict such, which is something that couldn't be said
> for almost a decade.  The team is finally starting to
> take clear steps in the right direction, and all y'all
> want to do is talk about breaking it up.  Baffling.
>
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